Florence Art and Museums Guide: Florence Vacations and Luxury Travel Packages

The most important art collection in Italy, and one of the richest in the world, was started in 1580. Since the beginning it was arranged (with many changes along the way) in the majestic Uffizi Palace, erected by Vasari and completed by Buontalenti.
It contains much of the fundamental production of Tuscan artistic schools from the 13th c. onward, as well as works by Venetian, Roman, Emilian, German, Flemish, Spanish and French painters.

Masterpieces by Cimabue, Duccio ("Madonna Rucellai"), Giotto ("Madonna with the Holy Child, Angels and Saints"), Simone Martini ("Annunciation"), Daddi, Gaddi, Orcagna, Lorenzo Monaco, Gentile da Fabriano, Paolo Uccello, Masaccio and Masolino, Domenico Veneziano, Piero della Francesca ("The Dukes of Montefeltro"), Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Baldovinetti, A. and P. Pollaiolo, Botticelli, ("Birth of Venus", "Primavera", etc), L. di Credi, Ghirlandaio, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes (Portinari Tryptych), Leonardo ("Adoration of the Magi", "Annunciation"), Verrocchio, Signorelli, Perugino, Berruguete, Pontormo, A. del Sarto, Bronzino, Melozzo da Forli, Durer, Cranach, Giambellino, Holbein, Altdorfer, David, Correggio, Mantegna, Luini, Moroni, Rosso Fiorentino, Michelangelo ("Holy Family"), Raphael ("Madonna of the Finch", "Pope Leo X", etc), Titian ("Venus of Urbino" and other paintings), Parmigianino, Lotto, Veronese, Tintoretto, Bassano, El Greco, Rubens, van Dyck, Caravaggio, A. Carracci, Rembrandt, ("Old Rabbi" and two self-portraits), Ruysdael, Guardi, Canaletto, Chardin, Nattier and Goya.

Also very important are the classical and hellenistic statues, witnessing the collectioning passion of the Medicis and the Lorenas ("Venus", "Knife-grinder", the group "Niobe and the Niobides"). Collections of tapestries (16th and 17th c.), ancient marbles and miniatures. On the ground floor, in the premises of the former church of S. Pietro Scheraggio, valuable frescoes, including the series of the celebrities by A. del Castagno (around 1450), and "Annunciation" by Botticelli

Opening Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday 8:15am - 7:00pm

Closing days:
Every Monday

Services:
Cloack Room, Bar, Bookshop.

Museum of Musical Instruments
Galleria dell'Accademia - Via Ricasoli 60- FLORENCE

Installed in the Palazzo Vecchio, the L. Cherubini Museum of the Conservatory is a valuable collection of musical instruments, it was began in the 17c. by Ferdinando de' Medici and was consequently enriched and enlarged. Lutes, cymbals, wind-instruments, violins and violas (such prestigious names as Amati and Stradivari are present) of various centuries. In addition, the first pianos of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-172), the "inventor" of this instrument, who attended the Florentine court of Ferdinando de' Medici from 1711 onwards.

Opening Hours:
9-19; Sundays and public holidays 9-13.

Closing days:
every Saturday

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